Trip Reports

Howdy anglers,

Well, I’m glad to say that our afternoon was a lot more action-packed than this morning! 🙂 We found a couple of kelp that had some hungry yellowtail. We also caught a few nice dorado today, like this dandy caught by Greg Thacher.

Capped off our day with a great dinner: braised short ribs with mashed potatoes and roasted brussels sprouts, followed by a delicious dessert, boat-made fruit cobbler. We’re gonna spend tomorrow here – hoping to repeat what we did this afternoon!

We were keeping it simple today – 40 lb straight to a 3/0 J hook with a sardine.

More later,

Capt Aaron and Team Searcher

Howdy anglers,

Checking in with good news – although we literally had nothing to report til lunch today, we found our first kelp about 7 minutes before lunch was to be served!  We were able to catch some nice fish off the kelp and we’re definitely happy with that. Here is a sample of some nice yellowtail caught by the group.  Steve Sawtell, pictured in orange, was able to land his very first yellowtail – nice work!

The weather has been odd today, but it’s nothing to stop us from continuing.  More later!

transmitted at 7 pm on Aug 1, 2016

Hello all,

Well, we saw enough fish today to have a good day fishing, though we couldn’t get them all to bite. We were observing yellowfin tuna in the 12-20 pound range – we managed to land some too. We caught some dorado on kelp paddies today so we had a little action there as well. Crewmember Ben Hart is pictured with Anthony Feroce from Chandler, AZ – who landed a yellowfin tuna that Ben hooked up using one of our Hook and Hand outfits supplied by Accurate Products and Seeker Rods. Thanks to them for the great gear and the sponsorship.

Great weather again today, calm seas and light winds. What a great 3-day trip it has been with this group from High Desert Communications. There are some pretty good signs of fish around now so we hope it continues!

Dinner soon, Chef Charley’s making fresh yellowtail with roasted red pepper rice pilaf, roasted squash, salad and fresh bread. Yum!  We’ll be back tomorrow morning.

Capt Art and Team Searcher

Hello anglers,

Our mid-day report isn’t quite as good as yesterday’s…but we have found some dorado and yellowfin tuna today – our targets for today! Here is a group photo of a recent stop on a kelp paddie. Lots of fun and some nice size dorado. Hoping for more!

Will send an update later.

Capt Art and Team Searcher

transmitted at 9pm July 31, 2016

Hello all,

We had a spectacular day of fishing today! Everyone from this group from High Desert Communications landed enough yellowtail to last them a while in their freezers. The weather was awesome with calm seas, sunny skies and light winds. Check out the group photo of some of the yellowtail we landed. There were a few dorado in the mix as well.

Dinner tonight was BBQ ribs with Chef Charley’s signature barbecue sauce, corn on cob and potato salad.  So good!

We are headed north to try for yellowfin tuna tomorrow.  More later.

Capt Art and Team Searcher

transmitted at 9pm on July 30

Hello anglers,

We departed at noon on a 3 day trip with High Desert Communications – a great bunch of guys! We got an excellent load of bait at Everingham Bros. and headed out to the yellowfin tuna grounds. We got a sample and got everyone on the same page for tomorrow. We did manage to land a nice dorado on one of our stops!  Bob Fredrickson from Gilbert, Arizona landed this fish.

Bob is now known as “Dorado Bob” – not a bad nickname!

Chef Charley just announced: dinner tonight is coq au vin.  Yum!

Headed south with high hopes for tomorrow.  More later.

Capt Art and Team Searcher

Hello anglers,

We finished the day yesterday with a little more action and ended up having a fine day of fishing! Capt, Ryan and Thom Carney are posing with a nice yellowtail that Thom caught with a live bait and 40 pound line. We had a few of this size fish mixed in today!

Today we didn’t do much. We had high hopes as there was good fishing in this zone for 2 days in a row, but not today. We had some fun and the weather was awesome again – we have been extemely lucky with the weather this trip.

Headed home with some happy anglers.  It was a great time as always with pro-staffers Wendy and Lori on this Izorline and Turner’s Outdoorsman sponsored trip!

Capt Art and Team Searcher